The Globalization of Retailing (The Globalization of the World Economy series, 22) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 184844236X ISBN 13: 9781848442368

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

This path-breaking collection, edited by two leading scholars in the field, brings together seminal contributions from the burgeoning multidisciplinary literature on the globalization of retailing. In addition to focusing on the retail corporations and their expansionary strategies, it explores the multi-faceted impacts of retail globalization on host economies and profiles the store and sourcing dimensions of transnational retail activity.These volumes are of particular interest to scholars in management and business studies, economic geography, development studies and economics, and more generally to all social scientists interested in the transformative role of retailing within the global economy.

About this title

About the Author:

Edited by Neil M. Coe, National University of Singapore and Neil Wrigley, Professor of Geography, University of Southampton, UK

Review:

`This is an excellent compendium of the ongoing research into global retailing across a range of disciplines within the social sciences. . . the collection deserves a place on the bookshelf of academics who research and teach this interesting and rapidly emerging research field.' -- Steve Wood, Business History `Coe and Wrigley have assembled a most impressive collection of key writings on the globalization of retailing. It will be of great value to students, researchers and policymakers in this rapidly growing, and extremely important field.' -- Peter Dicken, University of Manchester, UK and author of Global Shift

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 184844236X
• ISBN 13: 9781848442368
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1072
• Editor: Coe Neil M., Wrigley Neil